Extension for electric starter buttons



June 23, 1925. 5 1,543,284

C. L. FQRD EXTENSION FOR ELECTRIC STARTER BUTTONS Filed March 12, 1925 QWM Patented June 2.3, 1925.

UNITEDCSTATES CHARLES Ii. FORD, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

EXTENSION FOB, ELECTRIC STARTER BUTTONS.

Application filed March 12, 1925. Serial No. 15,125;

To all 2071 m it may concern:

Be it known that I, Cr-rnnnns L. FORD, acitizen ofthe United States, residing at Memphis, in the ounty of Shelby and the State 01 Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extens ons for Electric Starter Buttons, of which the following is a fulhclear, and exact de scription, such as will enable anyone skilled in the art to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in extensions for electric starter buttons and he especial relation to an extension to be used in connection with the starting button or pedal of the so called self-starter for an I automobile.

The object of my invention is to make an extension which will provide a larger and lirn'ily and without tendency to be displaced.

I. accomplish these objects as will be more fully, hereinafter set out in the drawings, specification and claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a section 01 the device taken on theline I-I of Fig. 2 showing in dot-ted lines the button in connection with which it is adapted to be used.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the member.

Referring now to the drawings in which the various parts are indicated by numerals, 1 is the ordinary starter button which is depressed by placing the heel of the shoe thereon in order to operate a type of self starter used on a well known automobile. 2 indicates the floor heard through which this button projects and 3 the front seat support showing the proximity of the button to the front of the support. These buttons have a projecting rivet head 4 which prevents the heel firmly seating thereon and are also so close to the front of the seat support that the heel of a womans shoe. especially that type known as a French heel, is hard to place thereon andoften slips off scarring the heel and often ruining the shoe.

My extension member comprises a disk 5 forming an enlarged button surface preferably roughened as shown to prevent the heel from slipping thereon, from the underside of which disk a hub 6 projects, this hub is bored out making it an annular sleeve or hub to receive the button 1. After being so bored out slots 7 are out in this sleeve to separate the lower portion into tongues 8 which have a certain amount or" resiliency and closely embrace and grip the sides of the button. 9 is a central recess adapted to re ceive the rivet head 4.

The I extension member so formed is slipped over the button 1 and forced downward thereon. The resilient tongues 8 securely grip and thereby attach the member to the button. The central recess 9 permits the eXtensionto rest flat upon the top of the button 1 and thereby avoids all tendency towards rocking or displacement.

In use, the extension member is simply pushed down on the starter button, or it necessary tapped lightly with a h ammcr until it seats solidly in place. The resiliency of the tongues securing it firmly in place.

Having now fully described my invention. what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent in the United States is V 1. In an extension for a starter button, an enlarged disk, having an annular hub projecting downward therefrom and separated into a plurality of tongues.

2. In an extension for a starter button, an enlarged disk having its upper surface scarred or roughened, and having an annular hub projecting downward therefrom an d separated into a plurality of tongues.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name.

- CHARLES ILFORD. 

